Where To Watch Classic Pokémon Movies Online
The classic Pokemon movies, Pokemon: The First Movie, Pokemon: The Movie 2000 and Pokemon 3: The Movie can be watched online — here’s how.
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The classic Pokemon movies are available online — but there’s a catch. Netflix’s remake of the iconic 1998 Pokemon: The First Movie is here; titled Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution, Netflix’s 2020 CGI adaptation of the first Pokemon feature film arrived on the platform on February 27, 2020. No doubt, long-time fans of the Pokemon series will feel nostalgic while watching the CGI remake, perhaps leading some to wonder: where can one watch the classic Pokemon movies online?
The first official Pokemon feature-length film was released worldwide in 1998, at the height of the franchise’s popularity — a franchise that remains highly profitable, even today. The now-ubiquitous “pocket monsters,” who appear in manga, anime, movies, and even a card game, have a humble beginning as the Gameboy games Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue. The games took the world by storm, and were followed-up by Yellow, then the second generation games, Gold and Silver.
Pokemon, the TV series adaptation of the video game, first premiered in Japan in 1997. The series was subsequently licensed, dubbed, and then broadcast for American audiences in 1998 (titled Pokemon the Series, presumably to differentiate it from the video game line). The success of the anime led to the release of Pokemon: The First Movie, which was followed by Pokemon: The Movie 2000 in 1999. So far, there have been a whopping 23 movies based on the Pokemon anime’s core characters.
Where To Watch Classic Pokemon Movies Online
Netflix currently holds the streaming rights to the classic animated series; however, this does not, unfortunately, extend to its movies. At the time of writing, Netflix only has recent Pokemon movies available to stream: 2017’s Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You and 2018’s Pokemon the Movie: The Power of Us. The first animated series, Pokemon: Indigo League and the updated version Pokemon: Sun & Moon are available to stream as well, skipping over numerous series, like Black & White and XY.
Amazon Prime has (some of) the streaming rights Netflix is missing; the classic Pokemon movies Pokemon: The Movie 2000 and Pokemon 3: The Movie are available to stream on Amazon’s platform, as are the other TV series, with the exception of XY and XYZ, which can be accessed on Hulu. Unfortunately, none of the main streaming sites have Pokemon: The First Movie available for free, but fans can purchase the movie, either to rent or to buy, on most digital content purchase platforms, such as iTunes or Youtube.
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